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In the Foreword, Stephen L Carter writes about "(preserving) a vision of America that almost nobody really believes in but almost everybody desperately wants to. In this vision, we are united in a common enterprise and governed by common consent. (W)e are people of good will, aiming at a fairer, more integrated society, which we will achieve through the actions of our essentially fair institutions. And the key to this enterprise ... is voting. ... (T)…

…She concludes, "Justice Potter Stewart wrote in 1964 that our form of representative self-government reflects 'the strongly felt American tradition that the public interest is composed of many diverse interests, (which) ... in the long run ... can better be expressed by a medley of component voices than by the majority's monolithic command.' ... I hope we rediscover the bold solution to the tyranny of The Majority, which has always been more democracy, not less." p 20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**